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Spain-Argentina's 2026 World Cup Final drew an average of 38.937 million U.S. viewers (peaking near 52 million), the highest for any non-Super Bowl sporting event since the 1984 Winter Olympics, underscoring growing U.S. interest in soccer and boosting the case for the U.S. as a long-term World Cup host.
BBC Sport recounts how Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal’s first meeting—as a baby photographed with Messi in Camp Nou’s away dressing room—has blossomed into a narrative threads that now converge as Yamal stars for Spain and Messi edges toward a World Cup final against Argentina, a moment photographer Joan Monfort calls a “true miracle of destiny” and many see as the symbolic closing of a long-running cycle.